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this is 📻⚔️, from 🏴‍☠️🛰️ irl: phd-ing @berkeleyischool, {ML, remote sensing} × {cities, infra, inequality} url: hot takes, bad puns, surprising etymologies

in xanadu, but from porlock
Joined August 2012
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allergy shots are just modern homeopathy
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Something a middle-schooler emailed us about: “A ‘combination lock’ should *technically* be called a ‘permutation lock,’ because the order of the numbers matters in permutations, but in combinations the order doesn’t matter.” 10/10, no notes.
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Being called an idiot hurt, but “useful” was nice.
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my clarinet teacher was from serbia and asked me if india bordered serbia
just had a meeting with a man from Serbia who asked me if I’ve heard of Serbia
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do u think california will go blue
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why have so many bookstores etc switched exclusively to leuchtturm.........did moleskine do something evil..........if so I excuse it
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I think it’s neat that we have so much cashmere and carbon fiber and titanium and sapphire crystals and diamond and quantum dots and fiber optic glass
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It’s too late, I’ve already depicted you as the agonized and weeping Tetlepanquetzaltzin and myself as the stoic Cuauhtémoc
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oh ok
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You might feel powerless, but you still can do your part today to degrade the information environment by sharing context-free anecdotes whose meaning at this point is genuinely unclear
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Genuinely intrigued to know what this leaves behind.
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a cyberattack made the raspberries i bought just a few days ago get white fuzz mold all over them
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undergrad researcher on the team overheard me saying that i went as freddie mercury for halloween and asked if that was a famous scientist or something 💀
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backwards haiku That's .California, Ukiah named place a is There
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I once tried to explain Bayesian reasoning at a dinner party. By dessert, everyone had updated their beliefs about inviting me again.
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Mexico should make one of those omega cheesy chinese/korean palace dramas with the exact tone and tropes but its in the Aztec empire
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how much knowledge do you think has been lost to silverfish and moths and other linen/paper eating critters
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Ammonia-based life form on the other side of the Virgo Supercluster: "We have to ban aerosolized platinum! It's putting a hole in the hydrogen layer"
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Old Moroccan man came up to me randomly. Êtes-vous de bonne humeur madame he asked. Started quizzing me on french words with a greek root. Hippopotame is the horse of the river, nécropole, city of the dead, is a big cemetery, etc. He said he has a kid named Dionysus
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